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positions (2023) 31 (3): 623–648.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Kenny K. K. Ng Abstract Cosmopolitanism promises to go beyond national thinking and tradition‐bound parochialism by reemphasizing the interconnectedness of individuals, communities, and cultures. This article probes the politics of adaptation of the left‐leaning Cantonese Union Film Enterprise...
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positions (1995) 3 (1): 119–148.
Published: 01 February 1995
...Andrew Kipnis Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 ”Face“: An Adaptable Discourse of Social Surfaces
Andrew Kipnis
I come to the study of “the Chinese conception of face” with mixed feelings.
On the one hand, I hesitate to focus...
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positions (2014) 22 (4): 749–780.
Published: 01 November 2014
...Kirsten Cather This article considers the 1973 Nikkatsu Roman Porn film adaptation of a short story by Japanese literary giant Nagai Kafū, “Underneath the Papering of the Four-and-a-Half-Mat Room” (“Yojōhan fusuma no urabari”). This low-budget erotic film appeared in the international context...
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positions (2021) 29 (1): 163–182.
Published: 01 February 2021
...Zawawi Ibrahim; Lin Hongxuan The Penan of Sarawak, East Malaysia, on the island of Borneo, are an indigenous community who have adapted to survive under the strictures and expectations of the Malaysian nation-state while proudly holding on to their traditions and identities. One such tradition...
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positions (2022) 30 (1): 137–158.
Published: 01 February 2022
.... Yet as a metanarrative about adaptation, the film reveals ambivalent attitudes not only toward the jury system and the West but also toward adaptation itself, open to an alternative interpretation in which the figure of the citizen, as a member of a political community actively engaged in public...
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positions (2012) 20 (4): 983–1007.
Published: 01 November 2012
...C. J. W.-L. Wee The Singapore People's Action Party (PAP) state's adapted Euro-US modernist impulses were reflected not in high cultural achievements but in building construction. Since independence, the PAP has revamped Singapore's colonial downtown into a conceptually empty postnational space...
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positions (2013) 21 (2): 383–415.
Published: 01 May 2013
..., engendered a collective spirit of individualism that at once embraced utopian ideals of collectivism and was suspicious of any enterprise that encouraged a dissolution of self. Marked by this ambivalence, Yoshihara adapted the collective experience to create a community in which creativity became...
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positions (2013) 21 (3): 579–605.
Published: 01 August 2013
... a shift from Vietnamese collectivism to individualism during this period. However, through a reading of Khái Hưng's novel Nửa chừng xuân ( In the Midst of Spring ), this article argues that although male Vietnamese writers adapted the European first-person grammatical category to express individual...
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positions (2013) 21 (4): 885–919.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Laikwan Pang In this article I first relate and analyze the overall development of cultural policy and the intellectual property rights (IPR) legal structure in China, in order to show how China's policy and its legal environment increasingly adapt to global conditions. I then use Lijiang...
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positions (2014) 22 (3): 573–602.
Published: 01 August 2014
... practices in a rural township in Hebei Province. Like many other places in the People's Republic of China, the township has seen a revival of popular religion in recent decades. This revival has often been described as a rebounding and selective adaptation of traditions that had been suppressed...
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positions (2014) 22 (4): 907–930.
Published: 01 November 2014
... and the memories of the characters that they are playing. Each actor effectively plays a character that is modeled after his or her own life. The film is loosely adapted from Alain Resnais's 1959 film Hiroshima mon amour and appropriates many of the elements in it, including, most significantly, haunting...
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positions (2015) 23 (3): 437–462.
Published: 01 August 2015
... the former group adapted to the cutthroat competition, the latter accepted disenfranchisement. This article concludes by considering what politics these young people might develop that would enable them to combat their ever-decreasing chances of becoming self-sustaining adults. Copyright 2015 by Duke...
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positions (2016) 24 (1): 45–69.
Published: 01 February 2016
... and Antonio Negri in their influential work on late global capitalism and empire. Moreover, these three sectors highlight the current significance of what the author calls “intimate surplus labor”—adapting Karl Marx's nineteenth-century concept of the production of profits for a range of capitalist...
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positions (2016) 24 (2): 369–401.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Fran Martin Through analysis of the fashion-and-beauty variety program 《女人我最大》 (English title Queen ), launched in 2003 by Taiwan cable channel TVBS-G and now spreading in syndicated adaptations in China, this paper examines the pop-cultural consolidation of a new category of feminine identity...
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positions (2017) 25 (1): 125–144.
Published: 01 February 2017
... influential ideological positions, and as attempts in adapting to modernist idioms of international cinema. Modalities of imagining the urban space, the author argues, attained crucial historical significance in aesthetics and politics: it enabled the cultural producers to aesthetically situate the films...
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positions (2011) 19 (2): 525–549.
Published: 01 May 2011
... context. The ideological acts of the female protagonists, with their own depictions of risk perception and risk management, allow the characters' adaptation to the quicksand conditions of their fluctuating financial affairs. Issues on tourism, prostitution, labor flexibility, and the social practices...
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positions (2018) 26 (3): 423–449.
Published: 01 August 2018
... types of workers. Recovery, according to these long-time users, is not conceived of as an attempt to return to an earlier way of drug-free living; rather, to recover is to adapt to the economic and social demands of a different historical moment. The conclusion considers how understanding this cohort...
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positions (2018) 26 (4): 781–815.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Emily Wilcox Contrary to the common perception that dance in Mao-era China was dominated by the importation and adaptation of Soviet ballet, examination of historical sources in corroboration with Chinese-language dance scholarship suggests that China’s pre–Cultural Revolution socialist period...
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positions (2020) 28 (4): 841–868.
Published: 01 November 2020
..., pauses, iterations, and interruptions. The technical effects of cuts and jumps in early radio and television editing undergird and thereby challenge the politics of representation in studies of decolonization. At the same time, technological transfer and adaptation in the former British colonies open...
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positions (2023) 31 (2): 281–301.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Yurou Zhong Abstract Since its inception in 2002, the Beijing New Worker Band has become a representative art group formed by and dedicated to migrant workers. Changing its name three times in twenty years, the band has demonstrated a strong capacity to adapt to uncertain political tides...
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